This is fantastic. I've been teaching a lot of creative writing courses that center around play (for both first drafts and revision), and your insights about flirting as "enjoyment of the possible" fit into that same space. What can we do when we have no outcome already in mind? Stuart Brown wrote a great book called PLAY that explores some of those same ideas.
This is fantastic. I've been teaching a lot of creative writing courses that center around play (for both first drafts and revision), and your insights about flirting as "enjoyment of the possible" fit into that same space. What can we do when we have no outcome already in mind? Stuart Brown wrote a great book called PLAY that explores some of those same ideas.